Jun, 01 2009
GFI Group licenses FENICS® FX to Raiffeisen Bank Polska Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:59:00

Leading bank in Central and Eastern Europe deploys leading FX Options pricing and risk management system

New York 1 June 2009. – GFI Group (Nasdaq: GFIG) has deployed FENICS® FX a platform for price distribution, STP of transactional workflow and risk management to Raiffeisen Bank Polska SA.

Raiffeisen Bank Polska, a subsidiary of Raiffeisen International, is a leading financial corporation in Central and Eastern Europe. The bank is using FENICS® FX’s STP module for straight-through processing of trade detail, rate and revaluation information between GFI FENICS® FX and other systems for improved operational efficiencies and to streamline workflows.

“GFI FENICS® FX has been integrated with Temenos T24 to ensure our customers receive the most accurate position valuations and remove operational risk from our internal workflow” said Miroslaw Winiarczyk, Head of the Treasury Department at Raiffeisen Bank. “FENICS® “FX’s Structuring Module helps the bank’s sales team to design, price, and distribute sophisticated structures with ease.”

“GFI is delighted to add Raiffeisen Bank Polska SA to the FENICS® client list”, said Richard Brunt, global head of GFI FENICS®. “This is a great example of a bank deploying FENICS regionally, using all aspects of FENICS® FX”. Brunt added “ What makes this deal significant is the level of work undertaken by GFI’s Professional Services Group in conjunction with the Raiffeisen team to customize FENICS® to fully integrate the system into the Raiffeisen workflow on an enterprise level”.

Raiffeisen Bank Polska SA completed extensive testing and regional deployment of FENICS® FX in the first quarter of 2009.

About GFI Group Inc. www.GFIgroup.com

GFI Group Inc. (http://www.GFIgroup.com) is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets. GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data, trading platform and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments.

Fenics Software Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of GFI Group Inc.

Headquartered in New York, GFI was founded in 1987 and employs more than 1,700 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Santiago, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Calgary, Englewood (NJ) and Sugar Land (TX). GFI provides services and products to over 2,100 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds. Its brands include GFI(TM), GFInet(R), CreditMatch(R), GFI ForexMatch(R), EnergyMatch(R), FENICS(R), Starsupply(R), Amerex(R), and Trayport(R).

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Patricia Gutierrez
Vice President – Public Relations
GFI Group Inc.
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patricia.gutierrez@gfigroup.com